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Hon. Stanley E. Bowdle 



Memorial 

Held at United States Circuit Court 
of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit 

Cincinnati, Ohio, May 26, 1919. 



Published by 

The Cincinnati Bar Association. 



Hon. Stanley E. Bowdle 



Born September 4, 1868 



Died April 6, 1919 



MEMORIAL 



Published by 

THE CINCINNATI BAR ASSOCIATION 

November, 1919 



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IN Loving Memory of one who devoted 
his life to the unselfish pursuit of the 
highest precepts of his profession, the service 
of his country and the uplift of his fellowmen. 



Memorial 



On Sunday evening, April 6, 1919, the Honorable 
^anley E. Bowdle, while on his way to the home of a 
friend, in alighting from a street car, was struck by an au- 
tomobile. He sustained a fracture at the base of the 
l>rain, from which he died a few hours later, at the Good 
Samaritan Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio. 

Mr. Bowdle was a prominent member of the Bar, a 
leading citizen in the community and a Representative 
of the First District of Ohio in the Sixty-third Congress. 
He had taken for many years an active part in all pub- 
lic questions, was a delegate to the Ohio Constitutional 
Convention of 1912, and did much to influence the adop- 
tion of the most important Amendments to the Consti- 
tution. He was a progTessive thinker, a powerful de- 
bater, and held a high and distinct place in the commu- 
nity. 

It was natural that the shocking and untimely death 
of one who did so much to honor and serv^e others, should 
cause great sorrow to his many friends and colleagues, 
and find expression in an appropriate tribute to his 
memory. 

Shortly after his death, Hon. Simeon M. Johnson, 
President of The Cincinnati Bar Association, appointed 
the following committee — Edward Moulinier, Alfred G. 
Allen, Charles B. Wilby, David J. Workum and Arthur 
Espy, to take appropriate action upon the death of Mr. 
Bowdle. 

The Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of Hamil- 
ton County, Ohio, appointed the follo^^dng persons to 
act as a Committee in conjunction there^Anth :--Judson 



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Harmon, John Gralvin, Nathaniel Wright, Edward C. 
Hauer, Sidney G. Strieker and Province Pogue. 

Memorial Services were held on Monday forenoon, 
May 26, 1919, in the Court Room of the United States 
Circuit Court of Appeals, Government Building, Cincin- 
nati, Ohio. Hon. Judson Harmon presided as Chair- 
man. On the Bench seated with him were Hon. John 
W. Warrington, presiding Judge of the United States 
Circuit Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit; Hon. 
Howard C. Hollister, Judge of, the United States Dis- 
trict Court for the Southern District of Ohio, Western 
Division; Hon. Walter M. Shohl, presiding Judge of the 
Court of Appeals of Hamilton County, Ohio ; Hon. Stan- 
ley W. Merrell, presiding Judge of the Superior Court 
of Cincinnati, and Hon. Frederick L. Hoffman, Presid- 
ing Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, Hamilton 
County, Ohio. 

A large and representative gathering, composed of 
the leading members of the bench, bar and citizens of 
the community was present. Mr. Edward Moulinier 
prepared and read on behalf of the Committee, a Memor- 
ial containing a biographical sketch of the life and char- 
acter of Mr. Bowdle, which was followed by brief ad- 
dresses from members of the committee. 

Upon motion duly made, it was unanimously resolved 
that copies of same be sent to the wife and members of 
the family oi, Mr. Bowdle. In carrying this resolution 
into effect, The Cincinnati Bar Association, as a token 
of love and respect to the memory of Mr. Bowdle, directed 
this Memorial to be printed. 



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Hon. Judson Harmon. 

Losing a friend and comrade is always hard to bear, 
but grief has a keener edge when that comrade is taken 
from us in the prime and full fruitage of his life and 
powers. 

In Stanley Bowdle's case there is an added pang, be- 
cause his death was due to the failure with which we are 
all partly chargeable, to deal promptly and effectively 
with the new and fast growing peril that sweeps by night 
and by day along our streets and highways. 

I had no close acquaintance with Stanley Bowdle. I 
heard some of his addresses and read others, and was 
once referred to him for information about Mexican law, 
when I was amazed by his accurate knowledge of the law 
and language of that country; a knowledge which he had 
no special reason to acquire. But his was a mind which 
thirsted for knowledge and would not stop short of under- 
standing. The casual vision and scrappy information of 
the passing tourist were not for him. Everywhere and 
always he was a close student of men and things ; and he 
generously shared with us all the treasures of his mem- 
ory and the product of his thought. 

Mr. E. P. Moulinier. 

Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen: — I have been asked by 
the Chairman of the Committee appointed by the Bar As- 
sociation and by the Hamilton County Judges to read 
the written Memorial prepared by them, as follows : 

On April 6, 1919, Stanley E. Bowdle was struck by an 
automobile shortly after alighting from a street car near 



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the Good Samaritan Hospital. He died a few hours later 
without fully regaining consciousness. Thus tragically 
came to an end a unique and remarkable career. 

He was in his fifty-first year, having been born on Sep- 
tember 4, 1868, in Clifton, Hamilton County, Ohio. He 
attended the Clifton public school and Hughes High 
School up to the age of fifteen, when he entered Cramp's 
shipyards at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as an appren- 
tice and served there three years. His natural bent, how- 
ever, was toward the law, and he returned to his home to 
become a student at the Cincinnati Law School in 1887, 
and graduated in 1889. He began the practice of his 
profession in that year, having offices in the Bodman 
Building with Nathaniel Wright and Gustavus A. Meyer. 

Some years later he and Nathaniel Wright removed to 
the Blymyer Building and had offices with W. K. Hille- 
brand and Edward P. Moulinier. This association con- 
tinued until 1897, when he was compelled to leave Cincin- 
nati for Colorado, in the attempt to recover from a seri- 
ous attack of tuberculosis. He fought this dread enemy 
for four years, spending the summers in the mountains 
of Colorado, and the winters in various cities of Mexico. 
It was while in Mexico that he learned to speak and write 
Spanish with fluency. Owing to his intelligent study 
of tuberculosis and the application of the newest and 
best methods of personal care, he regained his health. 

On November 29, 1900, while still in the West, he 
married Lillian Crane Scott of New York, and she and 
their only child Virginia survive him. With his health 
restored he returned to Cincinnati and the practice of 
the law. 

He became associated with Kramer & Kramer in the 
Union Trust Building, which lasted for a number of years. 



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until he and David J. Workum formed a partnership with 
offices in the First National Bank Building. 

He took an active interest in politics, and in 1912 be- 
came the Democratic candidate for Congress in the First 
District, defeating Nicholas Longworth, the Republican 
nominee. He served two years with Alfred Gr. Allen, his 
Democratic associate from the Second District. In 1914 
the same candidates opposed each other, but this time 
Bowdle was defeated. 

In 1911 he was elected as a member of the Ohio Con- 
stitutional Convention and left his impress upon the 
work of that body and extended his reputation as a man 
of original thought and an orator armed with wit, humor 
and learning. 

In 1916 he became a candidate for Congress in the 
Second District, but was defeated by Victor Heintz. 

At the time of his death he was busy with his profes- 
sion and increasingly occupied with important and lucra- 
tive litigation and office business. 

In the last few years he was associated, in the Second 
National Bank Building, with Joseph B. Schroeder, Ed- 
ward C. Hauer and Lorenz Lemper. 

The above gives a mere outline of Mr. Bowdle 's life 
but conveys no idea of his mind, heart and soul, or of 
the qualities which gave him distinction and drew the 
affection and esteem of his friends. 

Of a tall, almost gaunt appearance, he commanded at- 
tention immediately by his manner of speaking. Even 
in familiar converse he was impressive. His enuncia- 
tion was clear and distinct, his sentences well formed, 
his ideas lucid and connected, and always there was a 
graphic grace about his gestures and bodily movements 
— not in the least conventional — that heightened the tell- 
ing effect of his words and thought. 



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He had a logical mind. Laying down his premises and 
data, he proceeded by easy and imperceptible stages to 
convince his hearers of the soundness of his conclusions. 
He loved an argument and would fairly meet an opponent 
point by point, whether in the field of law, politics or re- 
ligion, 

He had read deeply certain phases of history. French 
history from the Revolution to modern times attracted 
him. He was familiar with the speeches of Robespierre, 
Mirabeau and the other great orators of those times. No 
one who heard his paper on Thiers, the French states- 
man, delivered before the Bar Association, can forget his 
vivid character painting, his familiarity with the open- 
ing years of the nineteenth century, his knowledge of the 
tangled political currents following the Napoleonic era 
and the trend of events up to and during the Commune. 

The Bar Association heard also his papers on Emilio 
Castelar, the Spanish statesman, and Juarez, the first 
president of the Mexican Republic. 

These three papers contain a most entertaining and 
accurate synopsis of the history of the three countries, 
France, Spain and Mexico, for the greater part of the 
nineteenth century. They were enlivened throughout by 
dramatic force, keen insight into political conditions, 
sparklig wit, a characteristic pungent humor, and the de- 
lightful surprise of apt epigram. 

He was intensely alive to the great achievements of the 
United States in the times preceding the war. As a 
member of Congress he took occasion to become familiar 
with the burning question of the merchant marine. His 
lecture on this subject was given before many audiences. 
It was a labor of love. From his boyhood days in 
Cramp's shipyard, he began the study of the intricate 



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problems of seapower in peace and war. He knew ships 
from keel to crows-nest, and he carried in his mind the 
statistics of world shipping, the names of the various 
companies, the numbers of vessels controlled by each, 
the laws governing the conditions of operation — all to 
a degree of detail that was most amazing. He advocated 
the acquisition by the United States of a strong merchant 
marine, keenly realizing its immense influence on na- 
tional safety and prosperity. 

He had visited Panama and his illustrated lecture on 
the canal, given frequently, never failed to hold the 
tense interest of his audiences. 

In his travels in the West his imagination was stirred 
by the achievements of the Government in its series of 
land reclamation projects. Here again he took delight 
in delivering talks with steroptican views of these colos- 
sal undertakings which have proven so valuable to the 
rich arid lands of our Western Empire. 

There was never a dull moment in any of these ad- 
dresses; they were truly informative; and at times he 
called upon his reading of the world's great philosophers 
for quotations showing the analogy between the grandeur 
of the material miiverse and the sublimity of human spec- 
ulative thought. Throughout there were flashes of humor 
to relieve the didactic or descriptive and the hearer arose 
refreshed in mind and spirit to carry away a more ex- 
alted opinion of his country^ 's greatness and of the dig- 
nity of the moral world. 

In politics he was a Democrat of the old school. He 
felt sympathy with the cause of the common people. He 
loved simplicity of life and cared nothing for pomp or 
show. He took many a case for those who could promise 
little or nothing in the way of fees. 



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As a lawyer he was distinguished for his ability to 
separate a law question into its most simple forms. He 
loved to argue from principle and then proceed to fortify 
his position with the most pertinent cases.. The illus- 
trations he used in argument were mostly taken from 
homely things. And yet at times he would marshal op- 
posite incidents and illustrations from history, literature 
or mechanics. 

He showed great skill in his speeches to juries. Dan- 
gerous points were minimized or dismissed with a sar- 
casm that was not too caustic. He dwelt on the strength 
of his case in strong simple language and in more than 
one aspect, so that the jury could not fail to see his posi- 
tion in its most favorable light. 

No account of Mr. Bowdle's life would be complete 
without some reference to his religious trend of thought. 
That he was profoundly reverent of a supreme power as 
ruler of the universe, no one who knew him even super- 
ficially could doubt. His nature was one of engaging 
frankness and he loved to talk of the things that gave 
him the greatest interest. First among these was his 
knowledge of the Bible. As a very young man he formed 
the habit of studying the Scriptures. Although he read 
widely among the agnostic and atheistic philosophers, 
such as Spencer and Voltaire, he seemed never to have 
a doubt of the Christian revelation. He saw in the New 
Testament the fulfillment of the promises voiced by the 
great Hebrew prophets Isaiah and Ezekiel. His form of 
worship went through some changes in his life, but in 
latter years he had become a member of the Episcopal 
Church. 

Over and above Mr. Bowdle's attainments in several 
fields of activity — political, legal and literary — were the 



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personality and character of the man himself. There 
was a never-failing boyishness— the incarnate spirit of 
youth, notwithstanding the fundamental seriousness of 
his nature. He was always eager and fresh for an m- 
tellectual combat. When he had time he prepared care- 
fully his arguments, but he was ever ready to engage 
unexpectedly in debate and drew unfailingly upon the 
ample store of knowledge always at his command. He 
seemed somehow never to arouse rancor in his opponents. 
They knew that he was genuine and that his quarrel was 
always with ideas, not with the individual. 

Perhaps the most noticeable characteristic of his men- 
tal equipment, shown in both his familiar and public 
utterances, was his unfailing sense of, humor. It was 
not humor for humor's sake, but used to make dearer 
the sharp point of an argument. Joined with the humor 
there was also the wit that lighted up his thought by 
juxtaposition with an unexpected contrast. 

It may be said of him that he was self-educated m the 
best sense. He was always willing to learn, and in con- 
sequence his views on serious subjects were constantly 
being broadened and ripened. His reading was extensive 
and embraced religious, philosophical, historical and lit- 
erary masterpieces. 

He had the gift of making close and loyal friends. His 
conversation was stimulating, his understanding of views 
other than his own quick and sympathetic. 

His influence on others was widespread and invariably 
elevating. No one could converse mth him without be- 
ing better for the contact. His domestic life was ot the 

happiest. 

To say of him that the example of his life was inspir- 
ing, that the love and admiration of his friends will live 



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on, that his memory in the community will be ever cher- 
ished, is to utter a common-place, but it is the simple 
truth and we, of! his profession, are honoring ourselves 
as well as him bv this sincere and heartfelt tribute. 



Mr. Arthur Espy. 

''Mr. Chairman and Friends: 

Stanley Bowdle I perhaps knew longer than any of 
you. We were about the same age, we were both born 
in Clifton and went to school together, passed through 
our primary education together. 

I can bear tribute to the fact that as a boy he showed 
all the promise that was fulfilled by his remarkable life. 
Those who were associated with him then considered it 
a privilege to know him. I knew him well. His family 
has lived in Clifton for three generations. He lived, 
when we first went to school together at the end of the 
ridge of hills that begins on Lafayette Avenue. The 
old house is still there just below Mt. Storm — a beautiful 
location overlooking the Millcreek Valley. I remember 
well when he was in the fifth grade and the Principal 
came up to him and said, "Stanley, you can move up to 
the Sixth Grade. ' ' That was a very exceptional achieve- 
ment. Stanley moved up to the Sixth Grrade and went 
along there just as if he had not skipped at all. 

He was beloved by all the boys. He was fond of any- 
thing that was new or different and the kites and other 
toys he made were prized highly and thought to be the 
best at the time. 

After he graduated from school I did not see much of 
him until later, when he came back as a Member of the 



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Bar and was Solicitor of the 'Village of Clifton. We, 
of Clifton, thought that was a high honor and we thought 
it was well deserved. He was also a Member of the 
Council for a short time. 

It was a privilege and pleasure to know him and no- 
body has ever made a deeper impression upon me, boy 
and man, than Stanley Bowdle." 

Mr. Nathaniel Wright. 

Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen: 

Thirty and two years ago this Autumn I first met Stan- 
ley E. Bowdle; we were students in the same class at the 
Cincinnati Law School. 

Even during these two years, a formative period in his 
life, the qualities which have commanded the admiration 
and respect of his fellows and won the affection of his 
friends, were evident. He was a marked man among his 
fellow-students, and he fullj^ maintained in his after years 
the reputation gained in his two years in the Law School. 
It was during these years, when habits of study and close 
thought were necessary to success, that the seriousness 
of life and the complexity of its problems began to dawn 
upon him, and the duty to meet and grapple with them 
became the principal object of his lif^e ; for the seriousness 
of life, its many inequalities and the seeming injustice in 
the lives of many appalled him; and it is one of the 
beautiful traits of his character that his life was devoted 
unselfishly to the amelioration of the lot of those in life 
whose fate was cast in bitter lines and were struggling 
upward to the light, dimly seeing in the fogs of their en- 
vironment, but which burned so brightly and clearly for 
him. 



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He wanted to help and he did help. His life and his 
acts prove it. He lived the clean and the honorable life. 
His ideals were the ideals of honor, justice and fair- 
ness, and he so squared his conduct in life with these 
ideals, that his memory is a very precious heritage to all 
of us who loved him. 

He hated sham and had no patience with hypocrisy, 
or sympathy with the sordid struggle for wealth and 
fame. He was genuine. No man had the least doubt 
where he stood, or what views he held on any question. 
He had the courage of his convictions, and where duty 
beckoned he followed. He fought his fight and ''held 
his peace, and had no fear to die." 

He loved an argument; an intellectual contest ap- 
pealed to him ; he delighted to match the keenness of his 
own mind with the mind of an adversary; and such was 
his mentality, so well stored was his mental armory with 
wit, epigram and learning that on many a ' ' stricken field ' ' 
of intellectual combat he more than held his own; but 
he was a fair fighter; his arsenal held no poisoned arrows; 
he was intellectually as well as personally honest; to him 
a victory won by sophistry or unfair weapons was a de- 
feat. 

No one who knew Stanley Bowdle can fail to remem- 
ber the quaint, original sense of humor which he pos- 
sessed. In public argument and in private conversation 
his humor flashed forth like the gleam of a rapier. It 
was fashioned to amuse, not to wound ; to point an argu- 
ment or to illustrate a situation. There was no malice. 
It was too spontaneous for that. It was one of the per- 
sonal, intimate traits of his character, and we loved 
him for it. 



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No sketch of Mr. Bowdle's life will be complete without 
reference to his religious views. He was deeply relig- 
ious, a student of the Bible and theology. He was not 
contend with the orthodox views of salvation and immor- 
tality handed to him by others. He insisted on studying 
the record himself and drawing his own inferences there- 
from, and I am sure that the results he obtained gave him 
great comfort. He believed in a divine being, in life 
after death, and that the reward of immortality comes 
to all who have kept the faith. 

As he lived, so he died, in the full respect and admira- 
tion of the community in which he lived, leaving a repu- 
tation of ability, honesty of purpose, devotion to duty 
and a character of spotless integrity. 

My friends, an honorable man, a useful citizen, a 
Christian gentleman and a valued friend has passed from 
among us ; we mourn his death, but we rejoice in his life 
and the achievements thereof. 



Mr. Charles B. Wilby. 

"Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen: 

It has seemed to me that I could make no contribution 
to this testimonial so worthy of our friend as to read some 
illustrations of his unique and remarkable power in the 
use of language. 

Possibly no instance better illustrates Mr. Bowdle's 
delightful sense of. humor, mingled as it ahvays was with 
a touch of pathos, to say nothing of his far-reaching 
statesmanship, than his speech delivered in Congress, 
January 12, 1915, on "Woman Suffrage," which attracted 
nation-wide attention. Indeed, his keen thrusts aroused 



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great indignation on the part of the more hysterical ad- 
vocates of that much mooted question, who sought to dis- 
tort his remarks as a reflection on woman. The follow- 
ing extracts from Mr. Bowdle's speech will show how un- 
deserved were these criticisms and the remarlvable genius 
of this fine character: 

"Mr. Speaker, I rise to voice the position of an un- 
numbered multitude of good women of America relative 
to the suffrage movement. A multitude of women whose 
voices are not heard in the streets; who do not seek the 
rostrum of political debate; who, though life is not ex- 
actly what some of them would have, do not defame their 
husbands and brothers because they have been unable 
to declare the kingdom of, heaven to be at hand; women 
who are not ashamed of their sex lot, though it dis- 
qualifies them from many functions allowed to men. 

These I represent." (Applause.) 

****** 

"Mr. Speaker, a great many men do not comprehend 
the significance of the antisuffrage movement among 
women. They can not understand why women who do 
not want to vote should impede women who do want 
to vote. Just a word or tvv'o of explanation : 

"Giving the franchise involves a change of status on 
all who receive it, whether they exercise it or not. The 
women who do not vote will infallibly experience a 
change of status. Let us see : 

"To be an elector implies certain things. Elector- 
ship, which is simply the power to determine the nature 
of the civil state, carries with it, or must sooner or later 
carry with it, the power of administering all affairs of 
state, including the administering of justice. It must 
be clear to the Members of tliis House that the power to 
determine the legal nature of the state must imply the 
power to assume and administer any office in the gift 
ot the State. It would be a disturbing thing to have 
electors with power to erect institutions which they could 
not administer. 



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"Necessarily, therefore, this proposed extension of 
the franchise involves finally a movement which will sub- 
ject all human rights to feminine decision; and the 
women of America who are opposing this movement are 
opposed to this change of their status. Those women 
have a vested interest in this question. They ask the 
men of this Nation not to foreclose that interest without 
a vote from them. The antisuffragists are the Jeffer- 
sonian Democrats on this question. And this is pre- 
cisely what those women will not get if the suffragists 

have their way." 

****** 

' ' Oh, yes ; I know women have played a great and 
noble part in this world's history; but it is a notable 
fact that this noble part was played without the ballot 
and some time before the movement came which last 
year destroyed $5,000,000 of London property created 
by men. The women who played that noble part did 
not have to be watched by the Scotland Yard detective 
force; they did not leave bombs in St. Pauls; they did 
not burn the Edinburgh collection of scientific marine 
instruments, working an irreparable loss to science cre- 
ated by men only, and which marks streets and lanes in 
the high seas. No, Mr. Speaker, the women whose 
names grace the page of history admired men and bowed 
to the scientific and political genius which he has slowly 
evolved and ever used to make of this planet a place of 

residence for wholesome life." (Applause.) 

****** 

'*To the State man is primarily responsible. He must 
serve it, protect it, and die for it. The State holds him 
primarily responsible for these duties and a thousand 
others. He pays the rent when he lives with her and 
the alimony when he does not. He goes to jail when 
he fails. Is it allowing him any peculiar privilege to 
manage the institution wherein that responsibility is to 
be discharged! The dollar is earned in the State, not 
in the home. Shall he who is charged with the duty of 



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bringing it lionie have the State managed by the one 

who receives it!" (Applause.) 

****** 

''All history, Mr. Speaker, is nothing but the record 
of an affair with a woman. Happy is that man whose 
affair is honorable. 

"I saw smoke curling up from a cottage chimney in a 
mountain glen. I followed it and entered the house; it 
was an affair with a woman. I looked ii.to tlie dimpled 
face of a babe; it told of, an affair with a woman. I saw 
a myriad of blackgrimed men emerge from tlie mine's 
mouth with lamps and dinner pails, and they smiled and 
went each his way, and I wondered why they worked 
amid such dangers; but I followed and found it was an 
affair with a woman. I was in the cab of an express 
locomotive hurling us_ through darkness toward tho city. 
I wondered at his willingness to endure the dangers, as 
block signals and switches and cars shot by, but I saw 
his face for a moment by the steam-gauge light, and he 
smiled as we approached the division end; and I knew it 
was simply an affair with a woman. I wa;^ with the in- 
ventor in an upper room at night, where he had slaved 
for years on the turbine principle, and I marveled at his 
constancy; but he showed me her picture, and, Mr. Speak- 
er, it was an affair with a woman. And the words of 
Swedenborg came to me 'Though men know it not, love 
is the life of this world.' [Great applause.] 

"Women; have they a mission? Yes; it is to rule in 
the world of love and aff'ectiont — in the home. It is not 
to rule in the State. They have a function to perform 
which precludes the latter sort of rule. Man is king of 
this universe; woman is queen. The queen rules when 
the king is dead, or becomes a mollycoddle, and the Amer- 
ican man is not that yet." [Applause.] 
****** 

"I personally have no fear of what suffrage will do if 
it comes. But I deny its claims." 



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"They say that * man-made' laws are not just to them. 
When did woman acquire a well-being separate from 
man's well-being! When did this race become divided! 
When the well-being of man is cared for the well-being of 

woman is assured." 

****** 

"They say that in some States a man is still able to 
will away even his children and may confiscate his wife 's 
wages. Mr. Speaker, I have had a long experience at 
the bar, and I have patiently read the legal journals, but 
I have never heard of an American man asserting such 
rights, if he ever had them. I know that in all probate 
and orphans' courts where I have ever practiced the 
tenderest consideration has ever been shown for the 
rights of wives, mothers, and widows. And as for 
wages, the vast mass of American workingmen turn over 
their pay envelopes to their wives, keeping only enough 
for a little chewing or smoking tobacco. The nations of, 
the world agree that the finest and most generous man 
on earth in his treatment of women is the American 
man, the suffrage leaders to the contrary notwithstand- 
ing." 

****** 

"They say that the present situation is taxation with- 
out representation. The fact is that 99 per cent, of the 
women of wealth received the same either by gift or in- 
heritance from some 'tyrannical' dead man, who labored 
hard to make it. Men create the property wealth of, this 
world, and it is proper that they should. 

"Mr. Speaker, there is in America to-day a forgotten 
institution known as the 'old man.' I know him, you 
know him. Our mothers knew him and honored him, 
and lie honored them. Rut he is now f orgof ten and often 
derided. Suffragists insult him. I looked upon his 
frozen features as he conquered the Antartic Zone, while 
women burned up five millions of his property at home, 
made by him with back-breaking labor. I have seen his 
face in the deadly saffron flames of molten metal, where 
a mismovement meant death. I have been with him in 



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the bowels of steamers and have seen him wipe the i>cald- 
ing sweat from his face as he fed hellish furnaces. 1 
have been with him working on great engines, in work 
taxing nerves and strength, where a mistake of a thous- 
andth of an inch meant ruin. I have been with him in 
the grease and slime of repairs to great engineering ap- 
paratus. I have gotten up with him in the frosty dark- 
ness of the morning to go to the great shops of the cities, 
while leisure America slept. I have eaten with him 
his spare breakfasts. I have been with multitudes of 
him around the f.orges of the world at noon dining from 
buckets, yet always cheerful. I have seen him pinned 
beneath locomotives, with his flesh frying on his bones 
and his hand still gripping the throttle, when his last 
question was as to the passengers and his last message 
was to a woman. I have gone in imagination 5,000 feet 
into the sea and visited the Titanic wreck and have seen 
500 of. him, cold in death, still in the shaft alleys, engine 
and boiler rooms, and each dead at his post •, and a thou- 
sand more I saw, all men, who had nobly offered their 
lives that women might live. I have seen multitudes of 
him in the lagoons and morasses of virgin countries, shak- 
ing with malaria, yet pushing forward the frontiers of 
life that more life might safely live upon this planet. 

"I have visited the trenches of battle fields populous 
with his ragged corps, unmurmuringly dying for his 
country. I have seen him strapped upon the plank of 
the guillotine and stand upon the scaffold 'with head 
bloody but unbowed' offering his life as a witness to his 
principles. I have seen him upon the calvaries of this 
world drinking the vinegar of temporary defeat. I have 
seen him labor w^ith his philosophies, without hope of 
gain, that men might be happier here and — 

' better know their end, and the number of their days, and to be 
led to incline their hearts unto wisdom — ' 

"And I have seen him work in music, and laboriously 
chisel in all arts that he might better teach his fellows 
the divine destiny of the race. Yes ; I have seen all this, 



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and you have seen it, Mr. Speaker, and i* ^l- <:«";>'^^<f_ 
me long since of man's divine origin and destiny. Ue 
Tpite the buffetings of sin, the angel in him has overcome 
S Jacob in him as Jabbok, and I this day beheve the 
nspirTd accomit of his creation, when Jehovah speaking 
wUh an nnnmnbered mnltitnde of the heavenly host, said, 
•Let us make man in our own image and likeness. 

"As to hostility to women, allow me to say that never 
for a moment have I done other than honor them, and on 
thit great day when 'God shall judge the secrets of men 
"ttfver othL sins may rise to shame nie, and they are 
many, no wretched Magdalen will rise m the judgment to 
"ay tl at I helped her down ; and I can say to my sainted 
mother who always honored men, that those principles 
r this' regard which she bound upon my fingers and 
wrote upon the tables of my heart have been kept. Mr. 
Sneaker I love masculine men and feimnme women- 
no't women of the rostrum, not senatorial lad.s who 
cross thei rlimbs in political wig-x^-ams. I love those 
women whose functions are so beautifully described m 
Byron's tragedy of Sardanapalus ; 

'The first o£ human life is drawn from woman's breast; 
Our first small words are taught us at her knee-, 
And our last sighs are too often breathed out m 
i woman's hearing, when others have fled the ignoble 
Task of watching beside him who led them. 

"Mr Speaker, I have come in late years to see who is 
the real statesman in America. He is not always, or even 
usually, the honorable or right honorable personage in 
n rno V halls of legislation. He is rather the qun.t man, 

e silent man in the community, whose lite lived agree- 
aWy with the ideals of patriotism and religion, serves to 
creltrthose conditions on which the State and all laws 
m^s finally rest. And in this statesmanship true women 
Zre and have ever shared. Such women are states- 
tmen! indeed, far more potent than any ballot box or 



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rostrum lady will ever be. It is this profound states- 
woraanship that makes certain the claim that — 

'TLa hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the 
world.' " 

I shall read a short extract from his own closing argu- 
ment for the defendant before Hon. James B. Swing, 
Judge of the Hamilton County Court of Common Pleas, 
in the case of Madden v. Madden, in 1906; some passages 
from his paper entitled "Recollections Of an Appren- 
ticeship," which he read before the Literary Club last 
November — to my mind the most remarkable thing he 
ever wrote; and some passages from another paper that 
he read before the Literary Club some years ago. 

In opening his paper entitled "Recollections of an Ap- 
prnticeship," he said: 

' * These recollections are personal. I secured them with 
my own bare hands. Of old, men have delighted to talk 
of themselves — chiefly because the subject is near, famil- 
iar, and requires little thought. I am a son of that bore- 
some crew. Even Zaccheus, the Publican, in the syca- 
more tree, when beheld and accosted by the Christ could 
not forbear to deliver some pleasant recollections of him- 
self. Bankers with perfect propriety tell of their mak- 
ing, although their business appears to me to be very 
stupid. Captains of industry may freely arrange for 
write-ups, telling how they came to be what they are 
from very unpromising origins; but a plain man with a 
plain tale is rarely endured. 

Tonight we change all this. I purpose giving my rec- 
ollections of an apprenticeship, and I expect to enjoy the 
recital whether you do or not." 

Then, after referring to his reasons for going into that 
business and the dissipations of the shop, he says : 



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"The.se recollections touching drunkenness and loose- 
ness have this value to me. They tell me how much we 
have advanced in some important particulars. Corpora- 
tions are today doing very much for the comfort of their 
men, and what they are doing is cancelling many old 
time evils. The cities too have advanced. The old time 
brutalities of the prize ring are gone, and viciousness is 
verj' much restricted, and even without prohibition the 
drinking of former days is very much abated. The elec- 
tric car, the telephone, branch libraries, and the pictui-e 
show have all added an interest, a zest, to life, which en- 
gages and legitimately consumes that excess of pleasure- 
seeking energies which formerl}^ found expression in 
many evil and some unmentionable ways. It is only by 
these contrasts that one can keep his optimism alive and 
observe the trend of humanity through the wilderness 
of the world's sin." 

Then speaking of the subsidies which the Cramps 
wanted, he continues: 

"Philadelphia in those days was 'Protection's' chief 
incubating point. Those were the days of Samuel J. 
Randall and William. D. Kelly ('Pig Iron Kelly'). Many 
a time at the Academy of Music I heard those men ex- 
pound the holy doctrine that waste makes wealth and 
that taxation produced prosperity. I believed what they 
believed. The whole city dealt in the goods of this Diana. 
But in this also where sin abounded, grace did much 
more abound, for I well remember the work done for Free 
Trade by William M. Singerley, the owner and editor 
of the Philadelphia Record and by Col. A. K. McClure, 
the owner of the Philadelphia Times. Those great pa- 
pers occupied diagonal corners at Ninth and Chestnut 
Streets and from there they issued their challenges to 
the whole crew, I could not but admire their courage. 
While hating their doctrines we were obliged to hear 
them, for the Record was the first one cent paper in Phil- 
adelphia. The fight waged against Mr. Singerley was so 



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strong that he determined to challenge the selfish enemy 
by appealing to their Quaker money love and for one 
cent he secured a large audience. The Philadelphia Rec- 
ord was a great paper then and is so today. It was the 
only paper seen about the Yards. Singerley some years 
later lost much of his fortune and his health. In a period 
of deep depression he suicided. Colonel McClure also 
died poverty stricken. Handling truth is no guarantee 
of fortune. Truth has no band wagons, no bargain coun- 
ters. As a rule, good things cost nothing and pay no 
money dividends. The truth-seeker must prepare for 
a dinner of herbs and must be content with spiritual satis- 
factions. And it must be so, for truth must l)e saved 
from the rush of the profane. Truth is found by the 
honest; but it is applied to the others like a mustard 
plaster. For the mass of men it is qiiite in vain that 
truth 

'Hath mingled her wine and hewn out her 
seven pillars and sent her maidens into the city.' 

"Indeed the maidens had better be careful, when Pro- 
tection 's magnates are about. * * * 

"I was at the yards during the last of the era in which 
there existed a personal relation between employer and 
employed, and before the coming of the great corpora- 
tion with its widely diffused stock ownership, in which 
the employer can not be located and when all has be- 
come mechanically ordained." 

Then, after speaking of the Cramps and their further 
seeking for subsidies, he said : 

"At that time the protective theory was justified, on 
the score of aiding infant industries just past the bottle 
period. Now, it is justified on the score of helping us 
pay good wages to the workmen. Since the infants are 
now in angle iron cradles, rocked by Corliss engines, and 
taking pap through wire-bound hose, the claims of in- 
fancy are cancelled; hence the need of another slogan. 



23 — 



Paternalism in Government, now everywliere obivons 
among us (and I am thinking of the movement quite 
aside from the War and its exigencies) is a necessary 
result of the protective theory. If the Government hands 
out a special protection to an industn- in order to enable 
it to pav high wages, or any wages, that industry be- 
comes a Vustee of an express trust and the Government, 
accordingly, has a perfect right to superintend all rela- 
tions between the employer and the employee m that in- 
dustry. Paternalism and protection are logical mates. 
Just now I fear that they are soon to be delivered of a 
huskv son, Socialism. We seem to be drifting toward 
that monotonous period when every man may aspire to 
own a Ford and dine at Childs. * * * -. r ^ 

'q3uring the early period of my apprenticeship I lived 
at a boarding-house near the shop. It was my first ex- 
perience with that horribly necessary institution an 
American boarding house. There were but three of us 
lodged and fed there. It was kept by Mr. and Mrs. X., 
childless and well advanced in years. Mr. X. was fear- 
fully deaf but he was a rather interesting man and much 
addicted to chess. His infirmity had played havoc with 
her voice and disposition. Her throat was granite paved. 
I remember awakening the first morning m the house 
to ask mv brother what was the cause of the not down- 
stairs. He replied, 'They 'are quietly discbssing the 
day's menu.' Deafness is a most terrible affliction i 
concluded then that the sound-eared consort ot a cleat 
spouse could by no means be saved-the rum wrought to 
the temper and disposition forbids it. Of course, the 
afflicted one hears none of the storm and fury, and-can 
plav chess Daily do I pray that my wife and I may 
presei-^^e our hearing despite the depredations of years 
on our other powers. Thus far Providence has done His 
part." 

After speaking of the benefits of the eight-hour day 
as compared with the ten-hour day he goes on to say: 



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"The world is today burdened with useless. learning. 
The public educational plans conspire to make this so. 
Think of taxpayers burdened to teach young men the 
relations of Chaucer to English literature; law taught 
by Y. M. C. A's. It took this war to arouse us to the 
value of the practical sciences. Another ten years of 
peace and our public educational plans would have ruined 
the nation, turning out young men altogether too soft 
handed to work and just smart enough to l)e unhappy 
and go about preaching impossible utopias to be achieved 
by legislati(m. Think of the way law has been taught 
and young men importuned by advertisement to come 
into it. How much worthy character has been ruined 
by that terrible period of waiting for business, the sloth, 
the negligence, the apathy, that arises during that period. 
Dives in Hell had the merit to wish that some one might 
go and warn his brethren lest they come to his place of 
torment; but what one of us has had that merit? 

"There is nothing so worthy as work, physical work, 
and some physical science absorbed in the process of it. 
School education is complete and highly successful when 
the student has achieved an interest in somethings — I care 
not what. An awakened mteresf, blessed is that thing! 

"I have met the nation's great, so-called, in political 
fields at least, around the cloak rooms of the House and 
Senate ; and I have often wondered how they managed to 
sustain it — of course by a camouflage somewhat older 
than that developed by this War. I have worked with 
the unknown great in the democracy of plain clothes and 
plain food, the men who have made the apparatus of 
modern life, the 'men not often thought of,' as Pro- 
fessor Summer describes them — I know them; their life 
has touched mine and stirred mine and I stand at atten- 
tion in the presence of their work. 

"Whatever of comfort we have in light, heat or power, 
we owe to such men whose genius has tunneled our moun- 
tains, bridged our rivers, and brought continents near, 
harnessing Nature's plenitude of raw titanic forces, 
changing history's currents, and making around the earth 



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*a highway for the people on which there is no lion or 
ravenous beast. 

"At times I have felt that I should like to have had 
Yale or Harvard for my Alma Mater. How I should 
have loved to sit under Prof. William G. Sumner whose 
published lectures early taught me the beauty of right 
thinking aiid the importance of fearless acceptance of 
facts; but there is an eternity before us for spiritual 
Yales or Harvards. For this world I bow gratefully to 
my Alma Mater, The William Cramp and Sons Ship and 
Engine Building Company, Beach and Norris Streets, 
Philadelphia, Pa." 

This, as I before stated, is an extract from Mr. Bowdle 's 
closing argument for the defendant in Madden v. Mad- 
den, before Hon. James B. Swing of Hamilton County 
Court of Common Pleas, in 1906. Mr. Madden was then 
and still is the owner of the famous Stud farm in Lex- 
ington, kno^\^l as Hamburg Place, and the suit was by 
the wife for alimony. His wife had left him and he was 
paying her a monthly smn under a contract, but she came 
here and sued him for alimony in gross. Mr. Bowdle 
said : 

"The praecipe in this case should have read — 'An ac- 
tion for money only, the amount claimed being an in- 
definite portion of Hamburg Place.' It is a vigorous 
rush for money by Mrs. Madden, supported by two able 
legal half-backs. Ah! half-backs, did I say! No, as- 
suredly full backs. It smacks of money. There is in it 
a powerfully pecuniary vein. It does not even ask for 
children. * * * Under no enlightened jurispinidence in 
the world could an action like this for gross alimony be 
maintained. It is only under the jurispnidence of this 
extremely western civilization, which many philosophers 
think is now somewhat decadent could this precise kind 
of action be maintained. In Israel, in the days of the 
Judges, a man could be compelled to support his wife. 



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In Rome, in the days of the praetors, a man could be com- 
pelled to support his wife. In England, France and Ger- 
many today, a man may be compelled to provide his wife 
a living, but this is an action not for monthly or yearly 
maintenance. It is an action by the wife for the parti- 
tion of Hamburg Place. * * * They are not satisfied 
with maintenance. Only in these days when we hear 
so much about the emancipation of, the ladies, could an 
action for alimony in gross be maintained. For it is 
only in this nation, where legislators are often moved by 
the clamor of ballot-seeking women that we have statutes 
such as this one in Ohio, * * * but, may it please Your 
Honor, there is a God in Heaven who 

' postpone th the devices of the crafty, so that 
their hands can not perform their enterprises.' 

'*In the Oriental days, when the Delilahs would de- 
stroy their Samsons, they clipped their locks. The mod- 
ern Delilahs bring alimony suits and this one expects 
Your Honor to say that her residence in Hamilton County 
for the purpose of maintaining this suit, was an honest 
residence. That was the residence that her lawyer built, 
and here is the lady that lived in the residence that her 
law^^er built, and this is the alimony suit brought by the 
lady who lived in the residence that her lawyer built. 
Oh, Your Honor, how unfortunate that a young woman 
'whose big blue eyes and snowy hands would shake the 
saintship of an anchorite,' should allow herself with up- 
lifted hands to come into this Court and swear that based 
on such facts she had a residence of one vear in Ohio." 



Mr. D. J. Workum. 

Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen: 

For ten years Stanley E. Bowdle and I were associated 
as partners in the practice of the law. 



27 — 



This constant and intimate association gave every op- 
portunity to know and appreciate him as a man and as a 

lawyer. 

His life as a lawyer had a steadf.ast purpose of con- 
stant effort in the path of the highest ideals of his pro- 
fession. He coupled with this, for mental recreation, 
deep study and thought on varied subjects that required 
much reading and careful investigation. His method of 
expression was unique and peculiar to himself; for it 
was not studied or guided by imitation of others. It was 
natural with him. His was a keen sense of humor that 
he could not resist. Religious and ideal, with views of 
life and men simple and clean, his every thought was 

pure. 

In personal appearance he was a striking figure any- 
where ; though frail, he was tall and erect and possessed 
of an abundance of nervous energ>^ and his action, men- 
tal and physical, made him quick and alert. When on his 
feet he forgot himself and his physical frailties, so that 
he always commanded the careful attention and respect- 
ful consideration of his hearers. 

He was human. He sympathized with all misfortune 
and took to heart the trials and mental unhappiness of 
a client whether a litigant in court or in the counsels of 
the office. This sympathy and gentleness often obscured 
to him the proper value of men. 

In the preparation of work he was most careful and 
painstaking, conscientious and devoted to the work on 
his desk, without a thought of its monetary value to him. 
lie never made the simplest address without sketching 
out w^hat he intended to say. 

His taking off was indeed swift and cruel, and every- 
where the news was combined with a pang of mingled sor- 
row and regret 



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Well may we be proud of him. He was recognized as 
a brother wherever men know what is praiseworthy in 
man. 

I trust that this idealist's dreams have now come true 
and that "Before the starry threshold of Jove's court 
his mansion is where those immortal shapes of! bright 
aerial spirits live ensphered in regions mild, of calm and 
serene air above the smoke and stir of this dim spot 
which men call earth, and with low-thoughted care con- 
lined and pestered in this pinfold here unmindful of the 
crown that awaits them there." 



Mr. Sidney G. Strieker. 

Mr. Chairman and Fellow Members of the Bar: 

It is with a mingled sense of. melancholy pleasure and 
regret, that I rise to pay tribute to the memory of Stan- 
ley E. Bowdle. He was my friend, my very dear f^riend, 
whom by years of intimate acquaintance I had learned 
to love, honor and respect. I have had friends whom 
I have known longer, but none for whom I had a deeper 
and more profound respect. My experiences in this re- 
gard, I am sure, was no different than yours. All w^ho 
knew Mr. Bowdle loved and admired him. Those who 
did not, never knew him. 

He was not a pretentious man who sought the favor 
of men. He was a modest man who found society in 
solitude, rather than in conventionalities. He was not a 
worldly man who reached out for popular acclaim, nor 
was he ambitious for material gain. Though conscious 
of his power, Mr. Bowdle never obtruded himself in pub- 



29 — 



lie or private. A student of history and keen observer 
of men, he had to be drawn out before he would express 
his views. He never spoke unless he had something to 
say. When he did, he always said something that left 
its impress. It was more than his charm and manner 
of speech that commanded and held attention. It was 
originality of thought and fearlessness of expression 
borne of honesty of heart and a clear mind, that made 
others eager to hear him, however they might differ from 

his views. 

He was more than entertaining. He was enlightening. 
A great reader and student, he had a full and ever ready 
store of, knowledge that made him powerful in argument 
and quick in repartee. He had a style peculiarly his 
owTi. With a deep, resonant voice, serious in look and 
gesture, clear and direct in speech, he rose to great 
heights of eloquence and was a commanding figure when- 
ever and wherever he appeared, whether before court, 
jury, or in the public forum. Simple, honest and un- 
affected, he was of the Abraham Lincoln type. 

To those who did not know him well, Mr. Bowdle, at 
times, appeared 'peculiar.' He was peculiar in the 
sense that he did not tread the beaten path and had no 
fear of being among the minority, when in his judgment 
it represented the true cause. He had a distinct person- 
ality which at once gripped attention. Kindly by nature, 
he had a supreme contempt for hypocrisy and sham in 
any form. Uniformly just and generous in his relations 
with others, he resented selfishness, stealth and dishon- 
esty in any form. Keen in sarcasm, there was something 
gentle in his thrusts, however incisive, which were al- 
wavs relieved by a delightful sense of humor which he 



— so- 
possessed to a rare degree. Courtly in manner and 
well contained, he was always a gentleman. 

Pronounced in his views, Mr. Bowdle was not a par- 
tisan. He was a democrat in the truest sense of the word. 
Politically, he believed that true Government had no 
higher function than to preserve the individual rights 
and liberties of the people. Socially, he believed in the 
common brotherhood of man. In religion, he believed 
in a supreme Father of all who controlled the laws of 
creation and destiny of man. 

He was an idealist. The great gulf between his lofty 
conceptions of the ideal and the actualities of life made 
liim at times appear sad. Behind it all, he was intensely 
human. He did not hope against hope. He lived on 
earth, but he prayed on the mountain tops. The world is 
richer in that he lived. It is poorer in that he is no more. 
He was an honor to the bar, a power in the community, 
a loyal friend and a patriotic citizen. 

Such a man w^as Stanley E. Bowdle. We shall miss 
him in the years to come. His memory will be bathed in 
the love, honor and affection we shall ever cherish for 
him. His life was an inspiration. God bless his spirit. 
It shall ever live among us. 

Hon. Alfred G. Allen. 

Mr. Chairman and Fellow Members of the Bar: 

I come to lay forget-me-nots upon the shrine of the 
memory of. my friend and colleague, Stanley E. Bowdle. 
A noted philosopher has said, "We stand on the bank 
of life's river and watch the mystic bark take from 
our shore its passengers on a voyage from which 



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there is no return and we are lost in speculation. 
The wdsdom that takes the strong and leaves the weak, 
that takes the wise and leaves the foolish, that takes 
the pure and leaves the vile, that takes the young 
and leaves the old, is beyond our ken. The passengers 
have no choice. The why, the wherefore, they are taken 
comes only at the end of the voyage. Those behind gaze 
upon a solemn mystery which each must solve alone with 
the dreaded boatman." 

Stanley E. Bowdle was a fine citizen, an able lawyer, 
a strong debater and a wise legislator. He believed in 
the people and had a keen interest in their welfare. 
Nothing touched him more deeply than the struggles of 
the poor. 

The story of his life is a glowing tribute to courage 
and fidelity. His wide reading, deep thinking and prac- 
tical experience well qualified him to perform our coun- 
try's service. His heart responded to every pulse-beat 
of the honest citizen. He sympathized with humanity's 
just demands against the heartless claims of avarice and 
greed and his analytical mind was able to solve the per- 
plexing problems of litigation and of government. In 
the midst of his usefulness, in the strength of his zealous 
manhood, with his task yet uncompleted, he was struck 
down Mdthout a moment's warning. 

He was an original thinker and one of the most en- 
tertaining of men ; his philosophy, figures of speech and 
dry wit held his audience until the last word was spoken. 
He was reared in a home where luxury and idle hands 
were not supposed to have a place and where all under- 
stood and obeyed the divine law *to go forth and earn 
bread by the sw^eat of the brow.' He toiled at whatso- 
ever his hands found to do and was not ashamed of the 



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grime of his hands or the garb of the laborer but esteemed 
each the badge of honor in the sight of God whom he 
early learned to love and serve as the whole duty of man. 

As a Christian, his faith and life were of the stal- 
wart, ever-going order which neither time nor season 
nor environment in any wise affected. He was un- 
usually familiar with the Book and hymnology of the 
Church, and while not pretentiously pious or demonstra- 
tive, he could repeat the Book and sing the old familiar 
songs of the Church with such ability that those who 
heard were charmed with the sincerity of his devotion to 
the Divine Master. 

He worked at the bench by day, and studied at night, 
and passed from his trade as machinist to practitioner 
at the Bar where he soon found recognition as an able, 
trustworthy attorney, one in whom clients could place 
implicit confidence and whom courts from highest to low- 
est would hear and to whom they gave full weight of con- 
sideration, respect and accord. 

In 1912 Mr. Bowdle was elected to Congress. He be- 
came a prominent member of the important Committee 
on "Merchant Marine and Fisheries" and was on the 
sub-committee which drafted the first shipping bill which 
l)assed the House by a large majority but was defeated 
in the Senate by a filibuster at the close of the 63rd Con- 
gress. Mr. Bowdle was an able representative, loyal to 
the jjcople, faithful to his trust, fearless in expressing 
and advocating his views and devoted to those policies 
which he believed to be for the good of all. He never 
dodged a vote, but to use his owti expression, 'loathed 
the fellow who exceeded the speed limit in getting into 
the cloak room when a vote was about to be taken which 
might cost him some prestige at home. ' 



— sa- 
lt is said that life is a mystery and that death is simple 
and natural, yet the latter is always impressive. It has 
also been truthfully said that the span of life is marked 
by spring-tune and autmnn, for if we but lif.t our 
eyes and behold under the shining canopy this day, we 
will see nature blossoming forth everywhere with ver- 
dure, life and beauty. The green blades are coming 
forth, the buds are opening, the flowers are blooming, 
and all is radiant with the mystery of life; and in the 
last analysis, the philosopher explains it not. Travel on 
until the chills of. autumn are reached, with eyes earth- 
ward turned, and behold the leaf is seared, the blade is 
no more, the bud is gone and the flower is dead upon the 
stalk; and all along the pathway from spring to autumn, 
here and there, prematurely, blades decay, buds fail to 
open, flowers bloom no more and great trees of the for- 
est wither and die in mid-summer. So it is in the path- 
way of human life, where without a single note of alarm, 
our colleagnie fell by the wayside before the allotted time 
of man. 

*A Ship of Mist sailed out of a cloud, 

Out of a cloud at the sunrise time ; 

The glint of the dawn was on sail and shroud, 

The glint of the dawn of the sunrise clime. 

Into the blue from the harbor gray, 

Into the blue of the living day, 

Into the vast, she sailed away. 

"Ahoy, lone sailor; what of the voyage?" 
"I've neither chart nor bearing, friend," 

*A Ship of Mist sailed into a cloud, 

Into a cloud at the sunset time ; 

The shade of the dusk was on sail and shroud, 

The shade of the dusk of the sunset clime. 

Into the gloom with the dying light, 



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Into the gloom of the endless night, 
Into the vast, she sailed from sight. 

'Ahoy, lone sailor; what of the voyage?" 
'I'm past the care of caring, friend." 



Tribute by Mr. Edward C. Hauer. 

Mr. Chairman and Friends: 

After deep and full consideration of the sterling quali- 
ties which endeared Mr. Bowdle to his fjiends, to me, the 
one which stands out foremost, was his politeness and 
elegance of manner and his courtesy, which was marked 
for its genuineness — an inborn family trait developed 
by a noble character. As Carlyle says of courtesy, 'It 
is love in little things.' Every act of. Mr. Bowdle 's 
was done gently and with love. No matter how heated 
his argument, no matter how eager he was to convince, 
his speech was ever softened by his courtesy. No man, 
however poor in wealth or mental ability ever received 
anything but the most courteous treatment from him, and 
that regardless of race, creed, or position in life. 

His other numerous splendid traits attracted friends 
and followers, but it was his courtesy which endeared him 
to us all. 



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